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http://dx.doi.org/10.12925/jkocs.2020.37.4.925

A Qualitative Review of the Difficulties and Success Strategies of Workplace Health Management  

Jung, Myung-Hee (Department of Nursing, Yeungjin University,)
Choi, Eun-Hi (Department of Nursing, Eulji University)
Jung, Hye-Sun (Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)
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Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology / v.37, no.4, 2020 , pp. 925-935 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aims to provide guidelines for the activities of workplace health managers by identifying their excellent health promotion activities and motivations. For this, consent for the study was obtained from 21 workplace health managers who had worked at the same company for more than five years, and a semi-structured questionnaire was sent via email to collect and qualitatively analyze the data. As a result, 17 categories and three topics were drawn. The derived topics included a sense of reward and accomplishment as workplace health managers, difficulties encountered as workplace health managers, and how to solve the difficulties. The survey respondents answered that they feel a sense of reward and accomplishment when workers open their mind, change their daily life, express gratitude, and pioneer new fields. On the other hand, they feel difficulties with unpredictable health, changes in the organizational culture, secrecy of disease, and people who think their job is easy. As a way of overcoming such difficulties, the research subjects said that it is necessary to read the minds of workers, let them know by themselves, use existing programs, have the most difficult people on their side, and spread their achievements. The results of this study revealed that it is required for workplace health managers to develop professional skills and emphasize the importance of health management to the policy-makers and employees of their workplace by continuously reporting health management performance. In addition, they need to actively benchmark the success strategies of exemplary workplace health managers.
Keywords
Workplace health manager; workplace; a sense of reward; success strategies;
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